A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Imran Siddiqui]

And Harry ****ing Potter?! Lord knows I love that series (ask anyone here), but that is a completely different type of series. Of course they focused on a core group - its a coming of age story at its core. Song of Ice and Fire is a sprawling epic, where the main character is the world itself.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Book 1 is by far the best in the series

Like I said, this book series is obviously not for you.

Anyone who talks about the Song of Ice and Fire and says "Book X is by far the best in the series" and X does not equal 3, well they aren't worth listening to on the topic anymore.

[MikeH]

Oh it's http://www.foxnews.com/

[MikeH]

I think they just parrot whatever it says on Conservative Douchebag Opinions.com

[Hauldren Collider]

I'm assuming you are just trying to get Guy even more angry as opposed to actually thinking Arianne Martell is uninteresting.

And if you don't care for tons of characters and tons of locations, then stop reading. This book series is obviously not for you.

I have my limits. Book 1 is by far the best in the series, with proper pacing and a large but not unmanageable number of settings and locations. When I have to consult the ****ing wiki to remember who some dumbass is after not seeing him for six chapters, there's too many of them. Harry Potter had lots of characters but focused on the ones that were actually interesting, and didn't split my attention. Better writers would write these other characters into spin-off series rather than try to tie them all together in an unmanageable tome of mishmash the way GRRM does.

The thing is, I probably would find Arianne Martell interesting if I didn't already have about 15 characters who are already interesting and I've spent multiple books and countless chapters with already. But tack her on midway through the series and it's just "oh ****, not another one."

[Hauldren Collider]

Peak GRRM was achieved when Dany takes a ****ing diarrheal **** in the desert. THE MORE SHE SHAT! Seriously, probably the most painful piece of "literature" I have read since the Harry Potter 7 epilogue. Did I pay for this? What the **** is going on? If I want to hear about terminal diarrhea I'll play ****ing Oregon Trail. This is important how exactly? Why would I want to know? Another author, with a better sense of when to apply conciseness, would have just said she got sick.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm assuming you are just trying to get Guy even more angry as opposed to actually thinking Arianne Martell is uninteresting.

And if you don't care for tons of characters and tons of locations, then stop reading. This book series is obviously not for you.

[Hauldren Collider]

I just couldn't handle all the characters. I didn't care about all but maybe five of them, and there are so ****ing many. I found myself skimming chapters. I had to stop myself because I knew some things would be important later, but after a while I realized I just didn't care. I don't care how big boobed this arab ***** is, or how throbby Mr. Knight's penis gets when she takes her top off. She's not Arya or Bran or Jon, so she needs to get the **** out and stop wasting my time with her crap. Same goes for literally dozens of other boring assholes.

Apart from the characters though, the biggest problem is that I constantly feel worried that he's roping me into a LOST-esque plot Ponzi scheme. He keeps opening new MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE and resolving none of them. He started to explain what was going on at the end of book 4? 5? I forget, whenever

Spoiler:

Sam is at the tower of magic people or whatever, maesters I think

but then the book ****ing ends. Thanks a lot, dickhole.

[Dinner]

The end of Dance was good as well. But the first 2/3rd (at least) of it was a bore.

The end of Dance starts to approach the heights of the first three.

Yeah, it has the biggest cliff hanger of the whole series so far with some really involved stuff going on but some how GRRM keeps it all interesting. The last part of that book is a gold mine of information which people can use to prove or disprove just about any theory they have.

[Dinner]

More importantly, they both sucked. Still, there's enough stuff to mandate more than one season.

That didn't suck but they did have a lot of setting things up and introducing the key people for the next war.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The end of Dance was good as well. But the first 2/3rd (at least) of it was a bore.

The end of Dance starts to approach the heights of the first three.

[Guynemer]

More importantly, they both sucked. Still, there's enough stuff to mandate more than one season.

Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.

I love book 4.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Plus the books get bigger and bigger as they go on. The first two books were relatively dainty compared to books four and five so you'd kind of figure it would take more air time to cover a 1200 page book than a 600 page book but I guess it depends on how much they cut out.

Technically, A Feast for Crows is shorter than A Clash of Kings (but longer than A Game of Thrones), but A Dance With Dragons is the longest of the all (of course the last 1/5th of Dance ends the storyline of A Feast for Crows as well).

[Dinner]

Meereenese Knot

Opps.

[Dinner]

There are still a ton that happens in them. Far, far more than half a season each. It's going to be 2 seasons. 1.5 at least.

Plus the books get bigger and bigger as they go on. The first two books were relatively dainty compared to books four and five so you'd kind of figure it would take more air time to cover a 1200 page book than a 600 page book but I guess it depends on how much they cut out.